Teenage sensation Rory McIlroy can only wonder what it would have been like to face his hero, Tiger Woods, in the Accenture Match Play Championship. He didn’t get that chance Friday, which might be one reason he had such an easy time advancing to the quarterfinals. McIlroy kept alive his hopes of becoming...

Geoff Ogilvy was dubbed the marathon man after winning the 2006 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship and the Australian has followed a similar pattern to reach the quarter-finals at this year’s event. The world number eight needed extra holes to win his first two matches at Dove Mountain before beating...

Tiger Woods felt like he had never been away. He played that way, too. Woods took five practice swings, slow and measured, settled over the ball and then backed away to make sure he was aiming in the right direction. Then he launched his 3-wood down the fairway and went back to work. “Walking down the...

Australian golf legend Greg Norman makes a rare appearance on home soil at the Johnnie Walker Classic starting on Thursday and he is not planning on simply making up the numbers. After turning 54 eight days ago, the man nicknamed the Great White Shark will be aiming to roll back the years at The Vines...

India’s Jeev Milkha Singh, American Anthony Kim and Thailand’s Prayad Marksaeng are included in a group of outstanding golfers that have been nominated for the prestigious Johnnie Walker “Keep Walking” Golf Awards. The annual Awards presented by Johnnie Walker in association with the Asian, European...

Golfers speak in reverent tones about Augusta National’s Amen Corner or the Road Hole at St. Andrews. They use different terms to describe TPC Scottsdale’s signature 16th Hole. Crazy. Obnoxious. Nerve-racking. “There’s only one place on earth, one hole on earth like that,” Camilo Villegas said. The 16th...

It’s time for the FBR Open, or the Phoenix Open, or the next episode of Frat House Gone Wild. In any case, let’s get this season started by taking roll; Phil Mickelson says he’ll be there, as will Camilo Villegas, Anthony Kim, Kenny Perry, Steve Stricker, Stewart Cink and all the Arizona crazies. Nineteen...

Camilo Villegas, one of the U.S. PGA Tour’s most exciting young prospects, said on Wednesday he was considering playing the minimum 12 events to qualify as a 2009 European Tour player. The 26-year-old Colombian, this week playing in the Castello Masters in Spain, told Reuters that the European Tour would...